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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.